For each of the Milky Way's 200 billion stars there are at least 2 Jupiter size planets! Recently astronomers said hundreds of billions of planets have been ejected from planetary systems. Before this research is was thought that only 10-20% of stars harbored these massive planets. There are far more gas gaints then ever believed to have been before and this discovery provides so much more for todays astronomers. Facinating! Read more...http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/19/science/space/19planets.html?ref=science
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